Michael N. Nelson, PhD
Dr. Nelson is the Director of the Section of Pediatric Psychology at Rush Children’s Hospital. Dr. Nelson is also an associate professor of child psychology at Rush University Medical Center.
Dr. Nelson is a founding member of Pathways Medical Round Table in 1988.
Additional Achievements
- Former President and current member of the Illinois Neonatal Development Follow-up Association
- Member of the Illinois Premature Infant Health Network Continuity of Care Committee
Education
- PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Research
Zelko FA, Nelson MN, Leurgans SE, Berry-Kravis EM, Weese-Mayer DE. (2010) Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome: Neurocognitive functioning in school age children. Pediatric Pulmonology 45(1):92-98.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Vasan U, Littau S, Meleedy-Rey P, Gu G, Patel M. (2002) Effect of auditory, tactile, visual, and vestibular intervention on length of stay, alertness, and feeding progression in preterm infants. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 44(2):91-97.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Patel M, Vasan U, Han BK, Cunningham N, Burns K, Kopischke K, Bradford L. (1999) Developmental intervention for preterm infants diagnosed with periventricular leukomalacia. Research in Nursing & Health 22(2):131-143.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Patel M, Lee H, Cimo S, McReynolds E. (2009) Maturation of the cardiac response to sound in high-risk preterm infants. Newborn and Infant Nursing 9(4):193-199.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Patel MK, Kilgallon D. (1993) Patterns of physiologic and behavioral response of intermediate care preterm infants to intervention. Pediatric Nursing 19(6):625-629.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Vasan U, Patel M, Cardenas L. (2002) Feeding readiness behaviors and feeding efficiency in response to ATVV intervention. Newborn & Infant Nursing 2(3):166-173.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Patel M, Berbaum M, Gu GG, Meleedy-Rey P. (2004) Developmental patterns of physiological response to a multisensory intervention in extremely premature and high-risk infants. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 33(2):266-275.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Silvestri JM, Cunningham N, Patel M. (1997) Responses of preterm infants to unimodal and multimodal sensory intervention. Pediatric Nursing 23(2):169-175, 193.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN, Burns K, Cunningham N. (1994) Environmental influences on the developing premature infant: Theoretical issues and applications to practice. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 23(5):393-401.
White-Traut RC, Nelson MN. (1988) Maternally administered tactile, auditory, visual, and vestibular stimulation: Relationship to later interactions between mothers and premature infants. Research in Nursing & Health 11(1):31-39.
Silvestri JM, Weese-Mayer DE, Nelson MN. (1992) Neuropsychologic abnormalities in children with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome. The Journal of Pediatrics 120(3):388-393.
Sandler RH, Finegold SM, Bolte ER, Buchanan SP, Mexwell AP, Vaisanen ML, Nelson MN, Wexler HM. (2000) Short-term benefit from oral vancomycin treatment of regressive-onset autism. Journal of Child Neurology 15(7):429-435.
Patel M, Nelson MN, White-Traut RC, Meleedy-Rey P. (2004) Use of the Box-Jenkins method to evaluate the physiologic responses of normal and CNS-injured premature infants to environmental sound. Newborn & Infant Nursing 4(3):162-169.
Nelson MN, White-Traut RC, Vasan U, Silvestri J, Comiskey E, Meleedy-Rey P, Littau S, Gu G, Patel M. (2001) One-year outcome of auditory-tactile-visual-vestibular intervention in the neonatal intensive care unit: effects of severe prematurity and central nervous system injury. Journal of Child Neurology 16(7):493-498.
Grattan MP, Nelson MN, White-Traut RC, Vasan U, Gu GG, Littaus S. (2006) Sex differences in high-risk premature infants' asymmetric movement development. Physical and Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics 25(4):5-28.
Burns K, Cunningham N, White-Traut RC, Silvestri J, Nelson MN. (1994) Infant stimulation: Modification of an intervention based on physiologic and behavioral cues. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, & Neonatal Nursing 23(7):581-589.
Bozynski MEA, Nelson MN, Matalon TAS, ODonnell KJ, Naughton PM, Vasan U, Meier WA, Ploughman L. (1987) Prolonged mechanical ventilation and intracranial hemorrhage: impact on developmental progress through 18 months in infants weighing 1,200 grams or less at birth. Pediatrics 79(5):670-676.
Bozunski MEA, Nelson MN, Matalon TAS, Genaze DR, Rosati-Skertich C, Naughton PM, Meier WA. (1985) Cavitary periventicular leulomalacia: Incidence and term outcome in infants weighing > 1200 grams at birth. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 27(5):572-577.
Bozunski MEA, Nelson MN, Genaze D, Rosati-Skertich C, Matalon TAS, Vasan U, Naughton PM. (1988) Cranial ul-rasonography and the prediction of cerebral palsy in infants weighing < 1200 grams at birth. Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology 30(3):342-348.
